Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 December 1950 — Page 1
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Sours -nowarnl 61st YEAR—NUMBER 286
[Freeze of Auto
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1950
Appeals for Peace—
- Pius Asks Uni ~ To Prevent ‘Voiding’ Earth
Yule Talk Hints at Russ Threat;
Bares St. Peters Tomb Discovery
VATICAN CITY, Dec.’ 23 (UP)—His Holiness Pope Pius XII appealed to free men everywhere today. to link order temporarily freezing all ~themselves in a close union to prevent a war which would|[-Ee ontrasts In the ‘automobile destroy the earth. | Economic Stabilizer Alan Without mentioning communism by name, the Pontiff [Valentine unary Jqumodate said that “the aggressor’—a foe “proud of his force, more than one mililon auto despiser of every right and! {workers last night, just six days] charity” — has created the rafter he rolled new car prices|
g ) Truman Cheerful back to Dec. 1 levels. danger of war amidst discord | | The two orders, which will re-
unprecedented in human history. | main in effect until Mar. 1 pend-| |ing a government study of the]
The Pope also announced in his 1 | S 0 | A ears {automobile wage-price-profit pic{ture were the first issued under
5000-word Christmas message the [the defense production act passed
discovery of the tomb of Sti. Peter and possibly the bones of] . . Nation in Excellent [last summer. | 2 The wage stabilization decision]
the Apostle beneath the great Shape, He Tells Group was the toughest Mr. Valentine
Union Victory FOI
Temporary Order | ~ Gives 1st Round Nod To Organized Labor
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (UP) —Organized labor won the first , round of the wage-price control battle today with a government
New Push
basilica which bears the saint's
name, Message Broadcast | INDEPENDENCE, Mo., Dec. g3ihas faced in his Detet temure as The Pope spoke before the (UP)—President Truman swung goo A Eo ay 3 ig Sheet :
Sacred College of Cardinals. His jauntily into a busier-than-usuali Auto Workers. message was broadcast through-|/ Christmas hoilday today after| Reuther Had Insisted out the world on beams which assuring the world that the na-| UAW President Walter P. carried across the Iron Curtain. tion will lick this crisis just as|Reuther had insisted <that the {industry's long term wage conHe warned that the aggressor it has those in the past. |tracts, providing automatic pay| “who comes from the outside”| “We are in excellent shape to} increases as living costs arise, can find a fifth column in the meet that situation,” he confi-| should be maintained under any internal discontent of many na- dently told a dinner for Ma3ouic government control scheme. leaders last night. “All we need | Mr. Valentine's order backed spiritual and moral cohesion. {now is time and that is what We|yp the union stand, at least until] Fr ria Hfs reference to the threat are fighting for.” -{Mar. 1, by retaining wage and against “free uations” indicated] Mr. Truman considered passing) salary increases granted by the he had in mind Russia and its up his customary early morning | automakers while they were Communist satellites, (walk to catch up on sleep “be-|raising prices. The Pope said modern atomic fore driving to nearby Kansas| It also sidestepped the thorny
warfare “would be—of such ex-/City to receive callers in nis question of “escalator” clauses by setting Mar. 1 as the ex-
terminating power as to render Presidential suite at the Musiile:} the earth almost ‘void and empty,’ | bach Hotel. |piration date of the wage freeze. similar to the desert not at its; The chief executive landed at| Under the auto contracts, most dawn but its sunset.” |Kansas City yesterday. He took of which run for another 4%
tions where there fis lach of
Corl B. Moore, chef of the second annual "Ye Olde English Dinner” at the Broadway Meth. odist Church Wednesday night, demonsirates an old Yule custom—"carrying in the boar’s head." Wartime Transit Crisis— = Gls Boost Yule Travel
{years, the next cost-of-living |
ee TY iin nla pointed to succeed Gen. 0 OW C p {in command of the field army Rush: {which is awaiting momentarily al ’
full scale attack by the Chinese | -
PRICE FIVE CENTS
ni4540,000 China Reds Set
ver
Advance Spearheads
Chet Demonstrates Old Yule Custom _ 4 Fresh Armies Edging
- South as Allies Brace For Defense of Seoul
Clash With Allied
Forces on Both Sides of Border
| By EARNEST HOBERECHT, United Press Staff Correspondent TOKYO, Sunday, Dec. 24—More ‘than half a million
| Chinese Communists massed
| Eve assault on Seoul and the | 8th Army. The Chinese Communists,
Walker Killed En Route to Honor Son
By PETER WEBB United Press Staff Correspondent | SEOUL, Korea, Dec. 23 — Lt, | Gen. Walton H. Walker, 61-year-| | old commander of the U. 8. 8th {Army in Korea, was killed in a | jeep accident north of Seoul today {while en route to decorate his son for bravery. Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, deputy to the U. 8. Army Chief |of Staff, immediately was ap“Walker
Communists on Seoul. Gen. Ridg-|
today for the second Come
munist invasion of South Korea and perhaps a Christmas
outnumbered United Nations
with almost endless reserves
behind the lines, were reports
ed to be organizing into a
540,000-man fighting force
for the big push across the 38th Parallel. 3 *
Four fresh armies were said to
{be rolling south from the Mans {churian border to Urited Nations forces bracing for la new defense of the South Kos
move in on
rean capital.
Advance Communist spears heads already were sparring with American and South Korean uniots on both sides of the 38th Parallel north and northeast of Seoul. .
One such North Korean prob. ing attack knocked South Ko-
?
rean troops. back 2%. miles 50
miles northeast of the capital yes terday. . Clash Near Border
U. 8. troops also engaged Come
“We consider,” hé said, “that the close union of all the peoples
off from the capital in a snowstorm.
For Santa Claus
way is expected to fly here from munist forces for 20 minutes with Washington within. a- day or two. unknown results yesterday just
| adjust t in auto pay rates is re iliti T da ¥ Lii it who are masters of their destiny, Greeting to Children nd Maren, At that acl 1 ies axe [Lo] ; imi |
Eu
e AND d ‘RS yi o! §' SHOP—DOWNSTAIRS
joined by the sentiments of reciprocal faith and mutual. as-
sistance, is the only means for temporary
the defense of peace or the best guarantee for its reestablishment.” ban Pleads for Peace He called for the use.of every
opportunity to settle differences ; in peace and concord and a re-
turn of mutual trust.
“let there be opened the barlet there be broken the
riers, ‘barbed wire fences,” he said.
Sending a special greeting to Communist-ruled
Catholics in lands, he said:
“May it reach them, notwithstanding the walls of their prisons and the barbed wire of their conforced labor eamps, out there in those far off regions which are shut off from the gaze of free men and over
centration and
which a veil of silence is drawn but which will not, however,
escape the final judgment of God nor the impartial verdict of his-
tory.” Speaking of have been under way for
excavations whic
beneath St. Peter's basilica, he
said:
“The essential question is the following: Has there truly been
he tomb of -St.| Tediscovered 1 2 means, particularly this one.”
Peter? s
Ahclision of “tire-work=and=t studies answer with a most clear ‘yes.”
ered.”
The second - most important younger generation is coming to.| said, was] ! the Saint haveito him and shyly whispered that
question, the Pope
whether relics of been found.
still Big Job Ahead—
RCA Unionto
In Clothe-A-Child Drive
AFL Workers Pledge Funds Obtained in
“By ART WRIGHT A new record in support of The
hafl been established today.
‘Local Union B-1048, IBEW (AFL) and salaried em-
| After a brief greeting to chil{dren who gathered in front of the White House here, he dressed in formal clothes, attended the dinner in Kansas City, | and then drove to his: boyhood home at Grandview, Mo., to install officers of the Masonic Lodge
it
!time, the government will have
o make a final decision on
| whether further cost-of-living pay | raiges can be granted.
Mr. Reuther said the .wage
| freeze order ‘‘does not disturb the {basic wage provisions of UAW contracts.” a
Trains In and Out of City Reported
Running 1 fo 2 Hours Late; Planes, Buses Busy
! Displaced civilians now in the Armed Forces brought a wartime crisis to the nation's transportation system today as the! Christmas travel rush reached its peak. 2 All travel facilities in and out of Indianapolis were taxed to
he founded in 1911. id At the dinner, honoring Frank Land of Kansas City and other members of the order of the Red Cross of Constantine, Mr, Tru-| man heard appeals for unity from two prominent Midwest Republi-
statement of one of them that the people are a “bit confused.”
Enjoy All Your - 1951 Holidays In
‘Your Own Home cans but differed bluntly with the
® Are you celebrating Christmas THIS year in the home that is “just
the limit as’ GI Joe—just like Gus Civilian and Joe College tried, to get home for Christmas. ° Bor 2 gd 798. Sol ok All trains in’ and out of Indi- — re anapolis were running one to two Indianapolis last night. Many hours late this morning. The extra flights were added, and; slowdown was blamed on thelhtree GI-laden special plants| number of extra trains needed to/from Texas paused here briefly handle troops taking advantageithis morning en route to the, of Yule furloughs. | Bast. | Yesterday, trains on the Penn-| In Chicago, 85 extra flights sylvania Railroad System were Were added yesterday. New York| delayed trom the east by a freight reported 84 extra flights yester-
Temperatures Still On Mild Side Here
LOCAL TEMPERATURE
6a m.,. 27 10a mi. 38 Ta m.. 21 11 a m,. 42 8 a. m.. 30 12 noon .. 45 Pao mus 380 : i
Humidity at 11 a. m. ....88%
“'Twas t days before Christmas, : And all through the nation: “Not a snowstorm was stirring,
Nor precipitation.”
Scattered clouds overhead, and
of Jasper, Ind, commander of the U. 8. 1st Corps, was placed in command of the 8th Army
arrives,
+ Gen. Douglas MacArthur released the text of Gen, Walker's ige to his men,
“1 extend sincere Christmas greetings to the officers and men of my command,” Gen. Walker wrote. “Your valiant and unselfish contribution to the attainment of the Christmas idea of ‘On earth, peace to men of good will’ will remain
temporarily’ until Gen. Ridgeway
written shortly before he was" eT
Maj. Gen. Frank W. Milburn,'above the 38th Parallel some 30
miles notth of Seoul. ; But these were only the pres liminary skirmishes befare the final all-out test of strength that |will decide the fate of Seoul, which has twice changed hands in the war. Seta
Gen. Douglas MacArtt ’ &
rternoon.. communique four additional Chinese e ist armies believed from the 4 i Field Army were reported to have entered North Korea recently from Manchuria. Their arrival boosted the nume ber of Chinese Communist divie sions in Korea to 39 totaling about 390,000 men. In addition,
h| Worthy Grand Matron of the Mis-! 10 years souri Eastern Star. |
“ , the final] To such a question e ga Boy, 11, Tells Santa ale
The tomb of the Prince of the Apostles has been yediseoy. A department store Santa Claus
“It is my opinion that the country is not confused,” he told Roy A. Roberts, president of the Kansas City Star who had made the statement, “The American people understand the situation.”
Mr. Truman plans to attend an Eastern Star ceremony tonight at the high school auditorium in nearby Grandview. His sister, {Miss Mary Jane Truman, is
right” for your family?? If NOT than plan NOW to find one right away ...and enjoy all the 1951 holidays in the comfort, convenience and security of the home most suitable for you. .
@In the SPECIAL Real Estate Section of The Sunday Times you will find nearly 1000 home | values offered For Sale, this is 100% MORE Real Estate advertising than in any other Indianapolis newspaper. From this WIDE SELECTION you are sure to find several that seem to meet your requirements. ®To have the Sunday Times home delivered just call Rlley 5551 before midnight tonight and .your paper will be placed on your doorstep first thing in the morning!
Tomorrow the chief executive, {will broadcast a Christmas Eve| message to the nation. He said {last night it would be about “Christmas and what I think it
.To Bring Him a Wife | MILWAUKEE, Dec. 23 (UP)—
| here justifiably wonders what the
An 11-year-old boy came up
=terrupt—any-flights—in—or-out-o
UP Writer Is Suspended By Army for Walker Story
train wreck at Scioto, O. The| second section of the Spirit of St. Louis and the Jeffersonian did not arrive until late yesterday after-| noon. yesterday morning. | Put on GI Specials The New York Central and the
on GI Specials for troops from
of the 28th Infantry Division from Pennsylvania was given a .|five-day furlough for the holidays.
week-end, when the other half of the former National Guard outfit] gets its holiday leave. Air travel continued at full capacity, Weather did not in- £
Wire Association Sa
the-wanted-a-wife for-Christmas., MILE 0 DIMES ; Final Estimate This estimate made early today indicated that 10 more lines of dimes were needed before the Mile-O-Dimes closed at 2 p.m, Whether the public has contributed enough dimes to make the full mile worth $8976 for The Times Clothe-A-Child wil be reported in The Sunday Times tomorrow. Employees of the Merchants National Bank were delaying
Rnd $13,000
Aid for 500 Needy; Year-long Campaign
Times Clothe-A-Child
50 LANES ..vvssesessssss$7480.00
the U. S. 8th Army as a result of Walton H. Walker. .
in filing his story.
involved in Mr. Webb's dispatch.
until 3 p. m. (12 midnight, Indi{anapolis time) so that next of kin could. be notified and then re-
/leased students for the Co
"Tokyo Censors Released News Dispatch TOKYO, Dec. 23 (UP)—United Press Correspondent Peter Webb has been suspended from working in the Korean War theater by
Gen. Douglas|MacArthur's headquarters assured not be announced until next of the United Press no security was kin are notified. M. P. Echols, Gen. MacThe United Press held the story| Arthur's public information officer, told the United Press that Gen. Walker's death was not con{sidered a security matter. : Meanwhile, however, both Mr,
leased it with the permission of| Webb and Mr. Kantor had been
the Tokyo censors.
day and 60 more for today. Advantage Taken American Airlines here was routing some of its passengers
They had been due early for the East and West Coasts gays to change the situation.
through Chicago to take advantage of the extra non-stop ilignts scheduled out of the Windy City. Most bus runs out of Indianap-
Pennsylvania Railroads each puti,jis were being doubled and in! tonight, Tomorrow's high will be
some cases tripled, whenever
Camp Atterbury yesterday. Half gumicient equipment was avail-|
able. The crush of humanity in the air, rail and bus depots here was
Another rush is expected next described as the greatest in five
years. The Yule travel jam was aug-
| mented yesterday as Butler, Pur-|jcy spots north of U. S. 30.
due and Indiana Universities reannual
wvaration
ys, However, That
his story on the death of Lt. Gen.
Mr. Webb complied with all security regulations, both under the correspondents’ voluntary code and according to Army censorship,
EE Eotth “of
Hoosier Boy; Dad |
there are 18: North Korean divis sions of about 150,000 men, Reds Bolster Forces Some 100,000 to 120,000 Red troops were already in the front lines around the 8th Army front. At 8th Army Headquarters, a spokesman insisted that none of the Chinese yet had crossed the old 38th Parallel border, Another strong buildup of Chi{nese troops and artillery was reported some 38 miles north of Seoul, near Kuhwa. One enemy battalion dug in only 30 miles north of Seoul and one mile above the 38th Parallel, but the bulk of the Chinese {forces concentrated seven miles farther north. +The new: buildup- indicated the... Communists plan to strike both frontally against Seoul, capital of South Korea, and around its eastern flank in an attempt to cut the United Nations 8th Army front in two. North Korean Reds from the flanking forces above Seoul ale ready were skirmishing with 8th Army units south of the 38th Parallel above Chunchon, 43
dingy, melting snow underfoot was the best the Hoosier Weatherman could offer today. He saw little in the next few
an everlasting inspiration to those who follow in your path. “I bescech for each of you the blessings of Almighty God and of Him whose birth we com- " memorate.”
Gen. Walker's specially rebuilt three-star jeep, a familiar sight throughout the war where danger was thickest, crashed into a South Korean truck. | Gen, Walker was rushed to a field hospital in an ambulance but | jed. His body was flown to] okyo. The stocky, square-jawed tank expert from Texas who guided ed Nations ound . troops The State Highway Department Dujted victory ay then a pb also announced that U. 8. 3 ing reverse at the hands of over- = WRB reopened. rari Mn of . this morning after a bridge had munists, was on his way to pin a been rebulit. medal on Capt. Sam 8S. Walker,
his so an infantry company Santa Makes If [=nminse yuo 1a his Round Trip for
In Indianapolis, as elsewhere in ithe state, temperatures were ex{pected to rise to the mid-40’s to{day and sink no lower than 30!
143. : | Most of what snow remains in {the city will be melted off by the {time Christmas Day arrives, ac{cording to the forecast. And it was good news t6 motor-| lists that all the highways in the {state were clear except for a few
; Young Walker, company of the 19th Regiment in some of the 24th Division's bitterest fighting, and out of the enemy trap on the Chongchon [River line, was to have received LA PORTE, Ind., Dec. 23 (UP) from his father’s hand the Silver —Nine-year-old . Robert Hiner Star for heroism in action. _ Imiles northeast of Seoul won't have to tie up his daddy| When he learned of his father's, o. 10 other side of K the to prevent him from going back death, young Walker drove tol Communists resumed vis to Alaska after Christmas. Seoul along the same muddy road pina attacks against the H jab.
Col.
Santa Claus has come through on which the accident occurred. nam beachhead on’ the northe a second time. He's fixed it so was | COast yesterday after a day. of Robert and his brothers and inactivity Lo mommy can fly back with him. * : x. In answer to a written wish, Silke 2gainat the western Santa Claus brought Robert's flank 8 ac ead 200 Cong father home yesterday from the yin at Aroone San n i coal mine in Alaska where he AD act oy Jarrage ™ §ag. Worked for one and a half] rest fled for their lives, }
MacArthur Sends
ployees of the local RCA-Victor Division yesterday com-| o™C tL, “or their Christmas ROS hy oT Arm : : i + i y y public| The La Porte Retail Merchants pleted four days of shopping for 473 Times Clothe-A-Child| holiday this afternoon te count ever, the A on iad information officer Col. Robert L.| Assoc, arranged Andrew Hiner's | : ; youngsters. After Christmas, the union members will take| the dimes. information. was classified under! Ton boot=ed to lift the coe TRE a Tope A Messa ge to Troo ny more children to the stores t0/™ "500 7 ioe "page 16 Thieves Plague." resulatians. sion even though told by Mr. yelled when he saw him, “So I : ING CASSIDY’S boost their number of young- y reiess 1€@ Suspended with Mr. Webb was Hoberecht on the telephone of can‘ tiie up daddy and he won't TOKYO, Dec. 23 (UP — : x Y PLAY SUITS Th While outstanding support has Both Police, Firemen |Ken Kantor of the Nationalithe stand taken by Gen. Mac-igo back to Alaska.” Douglas MacArthur sent the a. sters clothed to 500. The new... given to The Times Clothe- nd § Broadcasting Com. Mr. Kantor, Arthur's headquarters. But daddy's employer, the Evan lowing Christmas message today styling in block with record for the Union at RCA rep-/AChild this year, there is still roth te Jolice and, firemen in addition, was restricted to the| Col. Thompson indicated the|jones coal mine at Anchorage, | to the United Nations’ i | Sanforized. Sizes 4 to resents a cash outlay of mores big job ahead . .. and manyj, o 2 ot N Meridian St this correspondents’ billet. story still was considered a!Alaska, today arranged for the fighting under his command in P- than $13,000. more contributions are needed. ral : " Here is the full story: breach of security. entire Hiner family—including Korea: . 98 $a 5.95 Never in the 21 year history shopping was be- "Te on coupe was destroyed Mr. Webb came upon the scene m— Mom and Robert's two younger “On this, the anniversary . - of Clothe A-Child has any one|ing completed today. Next Wed-|, A ol (CL "00" pave been|t few minutes atter the tragic/Fire Ruins 2 Rooms |brothers”io fv pach 0 Alaska, | our Saviours birth, 1 ex : Spinto provasd 530, Cu ey ines shopess sein Sl Chad"hy gurl pes 7 ASSL JD YH On WAKA Jordan Funeral Home fe Cnt : - othe-A- ; = ; WAS ’ Nn 0 TI Fay or : \ who broke into the the holidays. : ” > BLE COTTON Child. The RCA workers last dren who still are in desperate building early this morning or Not Informed Firemen fi t a smoke-fire! | ——————————y—— : spent $9806.26 to clothe 353/need of warm clothes ‘ ough . Gen. Walker ET ROBES Tr, In 1948 they spent $7000! How many will be clothed after He wis mot told that Gen. for three hours early this morn- Driver Faces 3 Charges , IS fo buy clothes for 200 Clothe-A- Christmas will depend upon how The front door was broken Walker's death was to be con-|ing in the Jordan Funeral Home, —. ck C sh i, ; : 8 open and the parts departmentisidered classified material. 2428 E. 10th St. Two basement After Fire Tru ra At the Turn “ie Child youngsters. generously the public continues to blanket cloth in I ; and office was ransacked. But! He then : rooms were gutted. | ; : telephoned the story roon gu The injured driver of a car that ard pattems! Breid 7 ie money fof fhe RCA Send RE Ono 3 ae oe EE a al. ames wee. confined 10 thelerahod me 8 fre. truck. this 9A Close FeCl being run by thi 4 a EE id in allt isn't too late to make a con- with : ons That it,| basement, but smoke caused/morning is In General Hospital gyre Ron EL Aradiss : “by Norbert Osborn and thei image throughout the frame/and faces three charges . ‘Teen Ager” = = the